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Trading Technologies - TT Platform - Key Trading Features
TT is a new ultra-low-latency software-as-a-service (SaaS) trading platform that offers a streamlined, go-anywhere trading experience for professional traders. It’s built on an all-new scalable open architecture that enables both TT and end-users to innovate and respond to changing market and customer needs with unprecedented speed and efficiency.
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Trading Technologies - TT Platform Key Features
Accessibility
TT gives you the freedom to view and trade the markets from virtually anywhere via desktop, browser, or smartphone apps. The new open architecture allows for a variety of front-end clients. Multi-monitor desktop setups, Windows, Mac OS and Android phones are already supported with the potential and intent to support other devices based on user demand.
TT’s global, redundant, scalable infrastructure covers the world’s major financial centers, with co-location facilities located close to the exchanges, putting you in the middle of the markets even if you’re thousands of miles away.
Ease of Use
TT is powerful, yet easy to use. It only takes minutes to create your account using web-based risk and administration tools. There’s no software to download or install for you to begin trading so you can begin trading quickly.
A web interface with search-based navigation provides a streamlined, easy path to contract discovery and order execution. Quickly find instruments and products with a just a few keystrokes using TT’s intuitive search functionality. Easily create workspaces using widgets such as MD Trader, charts, Autospreader and more. You can retrieve saved workspaces from any computer, including a desktop or laptop, with TT.
What’s more, the open architecture makes it easy to customize your experience, and equally easy for third-party applications to integrate with TT. The solution allows nearly limitless capabilities for business intelligence of trade data recorded from the inception of an account.
Superior Performance
All orders entered through TT execute on co-located servers for ultra-low-latency performance. In fact, tests show the new architecture performs faster than TT’s existing technology. And TT provides transparency into internal latency numbers so you can adjust and optimize performance.
Cost Effective
TT is fully hosted, so there are no infrastructure or maintenance costs. Subscription and transactional pricing models make the TT platform affordable whether you’re a hedger trading only a few times a month or a market maker entering hundreds of trades a day.
MD Trader
Built for the aggressive professional trader, our patented industry-standard MD Trader ladder delivers maximum speed, reliability and ease of use for trading futures, options on futures, fixed income, energies, commodities and more.
The market-leading ladder
MD Trader is widely acknowledged as the industry-standard ladder for professional futures traders. It revolutionized futures trading 15 years ago when it launched in our first-generation X_TRADER® platform, and it’s evolved through the years to incorporate the most comprehensive array of features for aggressive click traders.
Powerful but easy to use
In MD Trader, market depth travels up and down the ladder to dynamically indicate market movement. It allows you to easily view prices, then quickly and accurately enter orders in a static vertical display.
With MD Trader, you can:
- Enter and cancel orders with a single click
- Choose from a range of popular synthetic order types including market, limit, iceberg, stop, cross and OCO
- Drag and drop working orders on the ladder to change prices
- Easily view depth of market, implied prices and volume, volume at price and more
- See all individual working orders at a price level, quickly change an order price or quantity, or delete a working order using the Floating Order Book
Now with the best of X_TRADER® and more
MD Trader in the new TT platform has all the popular functionality of MD Trader in X_TRADER. But it also include enhancements that provide you with even more flexibility and power. For example, with MD Trader in TT, you can:
- Easily add a new MD Trader ladder to a workspace by clicking on the widget menu, or open a ladder seeded with the contract of your choice by searching for the contract in the title bar.
- Conserve screen real estate and trade multiple contracts in one instance of MD Trader by using tabs.
- See your real-time positions at a glance in the tabs. Visual cues alert you when your position changes.
- Drag and drop a tab onto the workspace to quickly isolate a tabbed contract in a new MD Trader widget.
- Easily roll an expired contract to the front-month contract with just a few clicks.
Automated Trading
We’ve re-imagined and re-engineered our market-leading Autospreader®, ADL® (Algo Design Lab), Autotrader™ and API tools to be everything you know—but with more flexibility and accessibility than ever before.
AUTOSPREADER
TT comes with pre-canned popular features, like inside smart quote, which you can easily tweak and enhance. You can also build your own features with the new Rule Builder.
ADL
TT supports all the popular ADL functionality from X_TRADER®, like the ability to drive Autospreader with ADL. But you get even more with TT, like the ability to drive one algo from another.
Autotrader
You can launch the market-making algo that’s the backbone of the Autotrader window in X_TRADER from the TT Algo Dashboard. You can also create links between the inputs and outputs of any algo.
New APIs
The new TT APIs result in the lowest latency and highest throughput ever available from any TT application programming interface. In fact the TT Software Development Kit (TTSDK™), a C/Linux-based API, delivers the highest level of performance and speed available in any TT API to date.
Performance
TT also dramatically enhances performance. All spreads and algos execute on servers in our private co-located data centers to deliver ultra-low-latency performance. Orders routed on our global, redundant, co-located infrastructure achieve levels of performance and reliability unlike anything before.
Portability
And with TT, all of your workspaces and algo configurations go where you go. You can create a spread or an algo using a laptop, deploy it from your office workstation and manage it from your phone. The experience is consistent no matter where you are and what device you use.
Charting & Analytics
Maximize your return and uncover new trading strategies with TT’s broad range of robust decision support tools.
TT takes charting and analytics to new levels, with sophisticated tools for the high-performance professional trader.
Whether you trade exchange-listed or synthetic spreads, you can chart data from any TT-connected exchange.
It’s easy to add a chart to any workspace with two clicks on the widget menu or just a single click on MD Trader®.
Every chart parameters is completely customizable. Choose from all popular chart stylesand more than 80 technical indicators, then personalize your charts and highlight data with built-in drawing tools.
You have the flexibility to create and access charts from virtually any computer as well as Android and iOS phones. All charts can be saved as part of your go-anywhere TT workspace so that when you go from the office to home or from one day to the next, you can quickly pick up where you left off.
TT also provides access to Fundamental Analytics at no extra charge. Fundamental Analytics supplies a vast amount of fundamental data and price behavior information in a uniquely intuitive, user-friendly, web-based interface. This powerful analytics package allows users to research and identify trading opportunities by providing the ability to merge fundamental data with price data and to identify cyclical patterns, anomalies, and correlations for outright contracts as well as spreads.
TT Mobile
View and trade the markets from your Android or iOS phone with TT Mobile, a high-performance, on-the-go trading application designed for the professional trader.
TT Mobile extends the robust functionality of the TT desktop application to a mobile device in a form factor uniquely designed for the phone.
Unlike most mobile trading apps, TT Mobile was built from the ground up for the professional trader. Everything—including MD Trader®, charting and the “forever” Audit Trail—is optimized to provide both ease of use and security.
With TT Mobile, you can monitor markets, check positions, enter or modify orders, trade out or practice trading in simulation from pretty much any location. For example, you can:
- See where the market is relative to overnight range and check working orders on your morning commute.
- View the day’s trade history, including all parent and child orders, on your commute home with the TT Mobile Audit Trail.
- View the last traded price relative to the day’s range at a glance with the horizontal thermometer.
- Trade out while you’re on the go with a quick double tap.
- Select “View Only,” “Delete Only” or “Full Trading” to enable or prohibit trading from your phone.
- Practice your trading or test new strategies in sim mode from your phone.
TT Mobile gives you access to both live and simulated trading environments for all TT-supported exchanges. And TT Mobile sits on the same network infrastructure as the desktop application, which means all orders route through the same high-performance co-location facilities to deliver low-latency execution.
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